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BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



\Proclitus 



1. praetor, Hal. 



Cleptictis praetor, Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 116, <? ? . Proclitus grandis, 

 Forst. Verb. pr. Rlieinl. 1871, pp. 116c'M19; Thorns. O.E. xii. 1306, cT ? ; (?) 

 Brisch. Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. ISSO, p. 202, cf . Bussus rciiiotiis, Marsh. Ent. 

 Rec. viii, 1896, p. 296, ? . 



Head posteriorly distinctly constricted. Antennae elongate, apically 

 attenuate and basally pale; of 9 with 23-26 joints, of (^ with 23 or 24 

 joints. Abdomen centrally testaceous and apically compressed ; basal 

 segment elongate, linear and somewhat smooth ; second longer than 

 broad, apically double its basal breadth, with thyridii oblique and remote 

 from base ; terebra but slightly shorter than abdomen. Legs pale 

 testaceous, with hind tarsi and apices of both their tibiae and femora 

 piceous; fourth hind tarsal joint longer than broad. Radial nervure 

 emitted from beyond centre of stigma, nervellus distinctly geniculate 

 below its centre. Length, 5-6| mm. 



The largest species of the genus, known by its somewhat elongate 

 antennae which are apically subattenuate, the posteriorly obviously nar- 

 nowed head, the apically explanate face with subindicated epistomal 

 lines; the black stigma emitting radius from beyond its centre, the lower 

 angle of brachial cell not rectangular; in the lower wings the basal 

 abscissa of the cubital nervure only half length of the recurrent, and the 

 nervellus evidently geniculate below its centre; the elongate-fusiform 

 abdomen apically compressed, with its basal segment elongate, linear, 

 and subglabrous, the second longer than broad with strong thyridii; and 

 by the colour of the legs. 



